How to apply for a British student visa?

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Step 1. Define your visa type.

Generally speaking, for international students, the types of visas applied are: student, family member, visiting relatives and friends, etc.

Student visa: The purpose is to study in the UK. The duration of the visa is determined according to the length of study. Working hours are limited to 20 hours/week, and you can apply for degree certification after graduation.

Family visa: It's a student visa. The visa period is unlimited, and you can go to school according to British law. However, after returning to China, the Ministry of Education of China did not recognize the degree obtained by holding a student visa. Accompanying students in Britain can't transfer to student visas, but they can only reapply at home.

Visitor visa: up to 6 months, unable to work, able to read the language (because the professional course 1 year or more, the visa period is not enough).

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Step two. Ask where to apply for a visa.

According to the British Embassy in China, applicants can apply for visas in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou respectively. The British Embassy in Beijing accepts applications from people living in North China, Central China and West China. Residents of Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu should apply to the British Consulate General in Shanghai. Residents of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan should apply to the British Consulate General in Guangzhou. Please note that the British Consulate General in Chongqing does not provide visa services at present.

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Step three. Prepare visa materials.

Application time of validity period of basic materials for national visa types (working days)

Notarization of the British settlement visa relationship, and the guarantee materials are 2 years 1 month.

British student visa admission notice, proof of funds, language scores, study plan according to study time and course category.

British work visa employment contract, destination visa, proof of funds, 2-3 months employment certificate based on working hours.

Employment certificate of British transit visit visa, destination country visa, proof of accommodation in Britain, and proof of funds for 6 months and 4-5 months.

Invitation letter of visa for visiting relatives and friends in Britain, deposit certificate and deposit certificate, dispatch letter, notarized relationship for 6 months 4-5.

Proof of funds for British tourist visa, fake letter, 6-month trip 3-7

Original invitation letter for British business visa, dispatch letter and household registration book for 6 months.

Student visa:

Application form: fill in English, and fill in your Chinese name and standard code on the form. You can find the code at the visa office if necessary. The website also provides telegraph code download. Click here. This website also provides a guide to fill in the application form vaf 1 (click to open).

Passport: original and photocopy of personal data on the first page. Passport should be valid for more than six months from the date you leave the UK, and it should have at least two blank pages.

Photos: three recent passport photos;

Visa fee: paid in RMB cash. The visa fee varies according to the exchange rate. Click here to view the latest visa fee schedule.

The school's admission notice. Generally speaking, there are three situations:

Learn a language before taking a professional course in the UK-you need to provide an unconditional admission notice from a language school and a conditional admission notice from a professional course.

Go directly to a specialized course-you need to provide an unconditional admission notice for a specialized course.

Take professional courses directly, but it's too late to change the offer now-now many students apply for conditional offer first. General schools require IELTS or TOEFL to reach a score, and students will be unconditionally admitted after taking language tests in China. If you don't have time to change, you can show the conditional admission notice and qualification certificate (such as Yas transcript) directly to the visa officer.

Information on tuition and living expenses provided by the school: generally, the quotation will be indicated or a list will be attached. If not, you can print or copy the relevant information on the school website or student handbook as the basis for charging.

China's last diploma.

It is best to have a language transcript.

Leave certificate: if the applicant has a job, he/she needs to show the company's leave certificate (including working years, position and income).

Proof of funds: the amount of funds should include all tuition fees and living expenses, at least half a year in the name of the sponsor or himself. If the time is short, you need to prepare the capital history. Please refer to the proof of funds in the visa.

Original and photocopy of deposit certificate/passbook (deposit certificate is invalid)

Inventory:

Tax bill:

Stock certificate:

business license

Audited company accounts

Property registration document

Proof of funding: a letter from the sponsor agreeing to funding.

The salary certificate of the sponsor (including working years, position and income), which is used to prove the legitimacy of income.

Proof of kinship: a general household registration book is enough. If both parties are not in the same household registration book, they need to be notarized by relatives.

Accompanying visa dependent visa

Application form: fill in English, and fill in your Chinese name and standard code on the form. You can find the code at the visa office if necessary. The website also provides telegraph code download. Click here. This website also provides a guide to fill in the application form vaf 1 (click to open).

Passport: original and photocopy of personal data on the first page. Passport should be valid for more than six months from the date you leave the UK, and it should have at least two blank pages.

Photos: three recent passport photos;

Visa fee: paid in RMB cash. The visa fee varies according to the exchange rate. Click here to view the latest visa fee schedule.

Leave certificate: if the applicant has a job, he/she needs to show the company's leave certificate (including working years, position and income).

Proof of funds: the amount of funds should include the living expenses during the accompanying study, and it should be in the name of the sponsor or myself for at least half a year. If the time is short, you need to prepare the capital history. Please refer to the proof of funds in the visa.

Proof of funding: If there is a sponsor, you need to provide her/his letter of consent to funding.

The salary certificate of the sponsor (including working years, position and income), which is used to prove the legitimacy of income.

Household registration book, marriage certificate and other documents that can prove the legal relationship between accompanying readers and accompanying readers.

Photos or letters, and other documents that can prove the close relationship between the two parties.

Copy of passport of accompanying reader.

Copy of the registration certificate of the accompanying reader registered with the British police.

Accompanying readers study documents in the UK, such as proof of study.

Letters (similar to invitations) provided by accompanying readers, explaining the provision of accommodation, etc.

Accommodation for accompanying readers (contract or certificate issued by the school)

Bank statements of accompanying readers in a British bank for nearly 3 months.

Note: Generally speaking, if the accompanying readers are spouses, they can apply separately or apply for a student visa at the same time (in this case, the above items 1 1- 16 do not need to be prepared).

Tourist visa

Application form: fill in English, and fill in your Chinese name and standard code on the form. You can find the code at the visa office if necessary. The website also provides telegraph code download. Click here. This website also provides a guide to fill in the application form vaf 1 (click to open).

Passport: original and photocopy of personal data on the first page. Passport should be valid for more than six months from the date you leave the UK and have at least two blank pages.

Photos: three recent passport photos;

Visa fee: paid in RMB cash. The visa fee varies according to the exchange rate. Click here to view the latest visa fee schedule.

Leave certificate: if the applicant has a job, he/she needs to show the company's leave certificate (including working years, position and income).

Proof of funds: the amount of funds should include the living expenses during the period of visiting relatives, and it should be in the name of the sponsor or himself for at least half a year. If the time is short, you need to prepare the capital history. Please refer to the proof of funds in the visa.

Proof of funding: If there is a sponsor, you need to provide her/his letter of consent to funding.

The salary certificate of the sponsor (including working years, position and income), which is used to prove the legitimacy of income. If you have retired, you need to provide a retirement certificate.

Household registration book, marriage certificate and other documents that can prove the legal relationship between the two parties.

Photos or letters, and other documents that can prove the close relationship between the two parties.

Copy of passport of students studying in Britain.

Copy of registration certificate registered with the British Foreign Students Police Department.

Proof of study of students studying in Britain, such as proof of study. If you are inviting your family to attend the graduation ceremony, you need to provide a letter of confirmation from the graduation ceremony office.

Students studying in the UK provide invitations to provide accommodation, etc.

Accommodation for students studying in Britain (contract or certificate issued by the school).

Bank statement of British bank account of international students in the UK for nearly three months.

Unless otherwise specified, all materials need originals and copies, and you should keep one at home just in case.

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Step four. Understand the possible problems in the visa process.

If there is anything unreasonable or needs special explanation in the materials, we must consider how to deal with the visa officer. Because the interview will be very tense, stuttering will easily make vo suspicious. Click here to refer to the experience of people who have experienced it.

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Step five. Appointment visa

You need to provide your name, passport number, visa type, the date you want to make an appointment, and your contact number, fax or email address.

If the visa you apply for is the same as the one you recently applied for in the UK, you can go directly to the visa office from Monday to Friday at 13.30- 15.00 without making an appointment. If you change the visa type, you still need to make an appointment.

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Step six. Understand the address, surrounding environment and traffic of the visa office and make full preparations.

In particular, applicants living outside Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou need to arrive in advance. Because the documents you carry with you are very important, you must put safety first when you check in, and don't be greedy for petty gain, which will cause irreparable consequences.

Prepare clean and tidy clothes and don't wear slippers.

All the materials should be sorted in the above order, so that the visa officer can clearly see the organization of the materials and make a good impression before interviewing you.

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Step seven. interview

Go to the visa office for an interview as scheduled, bring a pen and complete the information. Don't bring anything extra, because you have to go through security when you enter the door. Too many things are troublesome.

Leisure books can relax the nerves. It is not recommended to bring a walkman, because you may not hear it when you call your name.

Don't be nervous during the interview. Politeness is necessary, such as knocking at the door, saying hello, thanking at the end, and closing the door quietly when you come out. Whether you can get a visa or not, self-restraint must be reflected. Self-confidence is the most important thing in the interview, because the visa officer has carefully examined your information, and the interview is only to ask questions that are unclear. If the materials are true and sufficient, there is no problem with the visa!

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Step eight. After the interview

Get a visa:

General visas can be obtained on the same day or the next day. It is normal if vo only provides the receipt during the interview. In this case, you need to call the visa office a few days before the date marked on the receipt, and you can usually get it one or two days in advance.

When you get a visa, you must check it on the spot. Sometimes the visa office will write wrong information (I have encountered it twice myself), which will have an impact on entry and exit.

Required supplementary materials:

This situation is not a refusal, but the visa officer thinks that your materials are insufficient and they need more information to decide whether to grant you a visa. You only need to prepare supplementary materials according to the requirements of the visa officer, which is why I object to false materials-supplementary materials are often loopholes, and the more you fill in the loopholes, the bigger the loopholes.

Denied visa:

When you are depressed, think carefully about what to do next.

If your materials are true, you believe that you can get a visa, but vo deliberately makes things difficult, you can appeal, and the appeal documents will be attached to the visa refusal letter.

If there are problems with the materials or you don't want to complain, you can reapply. There is no time limit for two applications. We should pay attention to analyzing the reasons for refusing visas and don't repeat the same mistakes.

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British visa-face-to-face visa

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Applicants are advised to prepare for the interview from the following aspects:

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1. Don't be late for the interview, and bring materials that can answer the visa officer's questions.

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2. Be confident in the face of the visa officer and make sincere eye contact. Evasiveness will make the visa officer think that you are evasive. In addition, don't wear exaggerated jewelry, don't make up, and wear simple and generous clothes.

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3. Learn to slow down, be good at listening, but be quick enough to respond. Some interviewees want to behave well or impress the visa officer, so they speak faster, but it may give the impression that the visa officer doesn't understand or thinks you are eager to succeed.

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4. Don't talk about topics with immigration tendency. Explain your future development according to the study abroad plan, clearly tell the interviewer your study abroad plan and ideas, and let the interviewer know the situation correctly and deeply.

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5. Before the interview, learn more about the school you applied for and your own situation, and try to show your contact information with the school teacher in the application, so that the embassy staff can clearly understand their ideas.

Whether face-to-face or not, for students, everything should follow the principle of honesty. Although the face-to-face interview will be more difficult than handing it in, as long as you know the questions frequently asked by visa officers and make full preparations, there is no big problem in passing the face-to-face interview.

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Matters needing attention

British visas, like those of other countries, are divided into short-term visas and long-term residence visas. Among them, short-term visas include business visas, study visas, visiting relatives and friends, and fiance (wife) visiting relatives; Long-term visas include study visa, work visa, high-tech immigrant visa, marriage immigrant visa, family reunion visa and so on.

According to the characteristics of British immigration policy, visa issuance also has its own uniqueness:

1, no matter what visa application, you need to make an appointment in advance;

2. Most visas in the UK require my signature;

3. You must bring the original and copy of the materials when you sign the face;

4. Visa issuance takes a long time, and if the application materials of private passport holders meet the requirements, business, visiting relatives, undergraduate (specialist) or preparatory visas can be issued within 24 hours; Visa applications such as residence, work and some graduate students need to be signed, and such applications need to be completed within 17 working days;

5. To apply for immigration visas for settlement and work in the UK, the initial visa is valid for one year. Then apply for an extension according to the actual situation.